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Wired Magazine's report on that bizarro Ferarri crash

Say what you want about blogs, there's still room in the world for engaging journalism, such as Randall Sullivan's report on that bizarro Ferarri crash that started out as a spectacular event but turned out merely to be the entry into a much more complex and intriguing world. (via BoingBoing.)

(Recent development: Eriksson turns down a plea deal. Interesting that he spoke through an interpreter.)

Published Friday, October 20, 2006 7:00 AM by oldnewthing
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# re: Wired Magazine's report on that bizarro Ferarri crash

Friday, October 20, 2006 11:28 AM by David Walker

Wow.  What a story!

# re: Wired Magazine's report on that bizarro Ferarri crash

Friday, October 20, 2006 11:29 AM by Dennis E. Hamilton

What interested me is that the Wired article has a Flash advertisement that obscures part of the text and that I can't make go away, even after clicking through to the advertisement site. Bahh.

# re: Wired Magazine's report on that bizarro Ferarri crash

Friday, October 20, 2006 11:42 AM by David Walker

Dennis:  That's one reason I refuse to install Flash.

# re: Wired Magazine's report on that bizarro Ferarri crash

Friday, October 20, 2006 12:40 PM by Jim

Dennis, I've got a bookmarklet in the first position on my bookmarks toolbar that gets rid of all of those sorts of annoyances with one click.

Normally I don't mind having a few adverts on a web page, after all someone's got to pay for the web site some how. However I object to anything thta obscures the text, makes a noise or animates excessively, so thefirst position in the bookmarks toolbar (or links toolbar in IE) in the browsers on all my PCs is labelled "KillC**p" and has the "Zap Plugins" bookmarklet from http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html in it.

The niceties of an advert blocker in Javascript, so no need to install additional software.

# re: Wired Magazine's report on that bizarro Ferarri crash

Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:56 AM by Kjell-Åke Andersson

Well, another swede crashed a Koenigsegg CXX yesterday after owning it for 18 hours!

Newsarticle in swedish: http://www.expressen.se/index.jsp?a=725005

# re: Wired Magazine's report on that bizarro Ferrari crash

Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:23 AM by Jason Doucette

It's spelled "Ferrari".  The two r's come first.

Thanks for the link, Jim.

# re: Wired Magazine's report on that bizarro Ferarri crash

Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:38 PM by billmar

Gizmondo was a Windows CE device that Microsoft directly helped with:

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS8547224987.html

A more detailed history is at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmondo

Bill Mar

SpecialComp.com

# Digital Kaleidoscope » Aren’t You Glad You Didn’t Buy a Gizmondo?

# re: Wired Magazine's report on that bizarro Ferarri crash

Monday, October 23, 2006 4:55 AM by dwave

Wow, sounds almost as weird and bizzare like that SCO-Baystar-Microsoft story.

# re: Wired Magazine's report on that bizarro Ferarri crash

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:05 AM by Tom M

This is agreat story! What I want to know is when the movie is coming out.

Dennis, I use the FlashBlock extension for firefox, which replaces flash things with an icon which you can then press if you want to run them. Consequently I only saw a transparent box with a small icon in the middle.

# Follow-up: Mysterious Dietrich identified from that bizarre Ferarri crash

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:54 PM by The Old New Thing

Not as happy as a little girl.

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